Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Extended Ministerial Offices

Clive Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to establish an extended ministerial office.

Margot James: The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has no plans to establish an Extended Ministerial Office.

Northern Ireland Office

Police: Northern Ireland

Mr Nigel Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Constable on the Police Service of Northern Ireland response times to national security incidents.

James Brokenshire: The Chief Constable and I meet regularly, along with the Justice Minister, to discuss national security in Northern Ireland.PSNI do not publish response time statistics broken down by incident type, however overall in the 2016/17 year to date (1 April – 30 November 2016), PSNI responded to 71% of emergency calls within 20 minutes.